News© Institutional Communication, 03/10/2006
The Technological Campus of the University of Navarra has opened a research center in Telecommunications and Microelectronics
- A hundred engineers are researching applications in bioengineering, digital radio and broadband, among other areas
The building implied an investment of 11 million euros. Photo: Manuel Castells
The Technological Campus of the University of Navarra has inaugurated its new research center in Telecommunications and Microelectronics. The building, located in the Technological Park of Miramón (San Sebastián), will house a hundred engineers who perform research in bioengineering applied to medicine, digital radio, and ADSL, among other areas with a large social and technological impact.
This center will be an important reinforcement for the research work which the University of Navarra performs at its Technological Campus of San Sebastián, where it already has two institutions: The School of Engineering (TECNUN) and the CEIT Research Center.
The new building will have a dual purpose: on the one hand, it will strengthen the formation of students in Telecommunications, and on the other, it will perform research in four lines: bioengineering, microsystems, and communications and industrial electronics.
With a floorspace of 7000 m2, the building houses six teaching laboratories, six large research laboratories –Communications Systems and Genomics, Microsystems and Optical Electronics, Telematics, High Voltage Electronics, Artificial Vision, and Radio Frequencies-, lecture halls, and a cleanroom (an area free of suspended particles, with a permanently controlled temperature and relative humidity, for the manipulation and fabrication of microsensors and microchips).
The building, designed by the architect Francisco Mangado and equipped with technology which is at the leading-edge in Europe, implied an investment of 11 million euros; collaborating institutions include, among others, the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa, the Basque Government, Kutxa, the City of Donostia-San Sebastián, and the Ministry of Education (Fondos FEDER).
During the presentation ceremony, Alejo Avello, director general of the CEIT and associate director of the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra, stated that the new installations will permit a further strengthening of the applied research which the University has performed over the course of many years in collaboration with sector-leading firms such as Intel, Hitachi and Siemens, for example. A consequence of this scientific collaboration has been the creation, over the last 10 years, of eight spinoffs (businesses based on technology) which employ 180 persons.
Main research projects in Telecommunications and Microelectronics
The Technological Campus of the University of Navarra in San Sebastián and the CEIT research center
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